I laughed as I reached for my wallet, and I threw a twenty down. Gramps looked up at me and frowned. I pulled another twenty out.
He winked. “Let’s do this.”
The moment he won the first hand, I knew I had just lost my forty bucks.
As we walked up to Mr. Banks’s barn, Grace and Maegan wouldn’t stop arguing. Mr. Banks had been letting us use his barn for barn dances since I could remember.
I finally stopped and spun around to face them. “Shut the fuck up. I can’t take it anymore. Maegan, stop acting like such a bitch. If you wanted to wear something different, you should have put the damn thing on in the first place. Grace, stop egging her on. My God, the two of you are acting like you’re in middle school.”
Maegan’s mouth dropped open, and Grace smiled at me.
“It’s about damn time Alex Mathews showed back up.” Grace blew me a kiss and walked by me.
Maegan continued to just stare at me before she finally said, “Fine, I’ll be happy with what I’m wearing. There’s no one in this damn town I want to impress anyway. Nothing but a bunch of country bumpkins are here.”
Maegan walked by me as Lauren, Libby, and Taylor all started laughing.
“Ten bucks says she walks out with a guy,” Taylor said to Libby.
“Taylor, that’s your sister,” Libby said with a giggle.
“Please, you just don’t want to take the bet ’cause you know I’m right.”
We all started laughing as we walked in. Libby stopped and stared out onto the dance floor. I followed her gaze to see Luke dancing with Claire.
Ugh, that girl is a pain in the ass.
I glanced around and saw Will. He was dancing with some girl I’d never seen before. It wasn’t a slow song, so they were just two-stepping. As he kept spinning her around to Dustin Lynch’s “Where It’s At,” she was laughing. It seemed like they knew each other well.
“Who is Will dancing with?” I asked Libby.
She pulled her eyes from Luke and looked at Will. She smiled and said, “That’s our second cousin, Trish. She is my mom’s cousin’s daughter. This is her first time in Texas. Will spent all day yesterday teaching her how to two-step. Her dad is in the military. She’s been in Alaska for the last five years.”
Will and Libby had gone to Alaska once to visit someone on their mom’s side of the family.
“Don’t worry, Lex. That boy only has eyes for you.” Libby bumped my shoulder.